How to Be a Jew ... like Jesse Eisenberg

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Movies about remembrance are incredibly complicated and difficult to pull off. In his latest film, A Real Pain, actor, writer, and director Jesse Eisenberg tackles grief, family, and memory with echoes of the Holocaust as a haunting background. The film, which was inspired by a piece Jesse wrote for Tablet in 2017, was nominated for four Golden Globe awards. Hosted by Courtney Hazlett, Rabbi Diana Fersko, and Josh Kross, each episode of How to Be a Jew takes a look at a current, cultural topic and what it means for us as Jews, and how we react to it because we are Jews. Want to send us an email? Send it off to podcasts@tabletmag.com For more podcasts, visit tabletmag.com/podcasts

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0:00.0	Shalom. Hello, what is up and welcome to How to Be a Jew.
0:24.0	This is your weekly guide to traipsing through the world in the most Jewish way possible.
0:28.5	Finding Jewish wisdom in unexpected places.
0:31.1	I am one of your host, Courtney Hazlitt.
0:32.9	Luckily, I am joined by someone with actual wisdom, the one and only rabbi, Diana Furisco.
0:38.1	Hello, Rabbi.
0:39.2	Happy Hanukkah.
0:40.2	So good to see you again.
0:41.8	Hagsamaic.
0:43.2	And I'm joined by, let's just say, the wicked child, Josh Cross.
0:48.3	Well, hagsomeyach to you too, then.
0:50.8	I think you like that title.
0:53.2	You wear it as a badge. and if we're talking about wisdom
0:55.4	anyway, it all works. It all works out. We're saying hugs and meek, but at this point, Hanukkah is
1:01.4	over. Your Christmas trees are put away. That's a joke. That's a joke. They call that a callback
1:05.8	from our very first episode. We're not putting up Christmas trees unless you're Josh Cross,
1:09.4	the wicked child. And we, he would never. He would never. first episode. We're not putting up Christmas trees unless you're Josh Cross, the Wicked Child.
1:17.4	Never. He would never. He would never. Never. We've got a really exciting guest coming up.
1:23.8	And before we get to that, I wanted to crack open the topic at hand generally. And that is the category of movies that I'm calling remembrance movies. I don't want to call them Holocaust movies
1:27.9	because I think especially since 10-7, at some point we're going to see films and other
1:34.0	types of art that have to do with that. But generally speaking, how do we feel about films that
1:40.5	try to portray Jewishness and especially the task at hand to remember all the things
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